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"You would be really, really surprised what things end up getting people through their worst days. When I still fenced at the university, we had one fifteen year old student, and I'd hang around after class to keep them company until their mother could pick them up at 10 PM. Last year, their mother told me that this had been an extra kindness that helped them juggle two kids as a single mother, one of whom was transitioning. I had no idea, I just lived across the road and liked their company. I got through the worst depression of my life watching a YouTuber do challenge runs of Runescape, which the author no doubt thought was just a stupid thing he was doing in his free time, but it genuinely alleviated the most extreme suffering of my life better than any SSRI in existence could.

Someone, somewhere, has made my life better by choosing not to write terrible code that I had to debug in my darkest moments, and I'll never even know about it. But you know, thanks for the little things."

- On Burnout

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( it may come as a surprise i find it very hard to be proud of creative projects. )